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Swampland Revisited
Michel Cass\e', Joseph Silk
The transcendental expectation of string theory is that the nature of the fundamental forces, particle spectra and masses, together with coupling constants, is uniquely determined…
On the Question Why There Exists Something Rather Than Nothing
Roderich Tumulka
In my opinion, nothing useful has ever been written on the question in the title, and small is the contribution that I have to offer. I outline an explanation for why there is some…
The Current Status of Galaxy Formation
Joe Silk, Gary A. Mamon
Understanding galaxy formation is one of the most pressing issues in cosmology. We review the current status of galaxy formation from both an observational and a theoretical perspe…
Topology of the universe from COBE-DMR; a wavelet approach
G. Rocha, L. Cayon, R. Bowen +4
In this paper we pursue a new technique to search for evidence of a finite Universe, making use of a spherical mexican-hat wavelet decomposition of the microwave background fluctua…
How the Universe got its Spots
Janna Levin, Evan Scannapieco, Giancarlo de Gasperis +2
The universe displays a three-dimensional pattern of hot and cold spots in the radiation remnant from the big bang. The global geometry of the universe can be revealed in the spati…
The topology of the universe: the biggest manifold of them all
Janna Levin, Evan Scannapieco, Joseph Silk
Clues as to the geometry of the universe are encoded in the cosmic background radiation. Hot and cold spots in the primordial radiation may be randomly distributed in an infinite u…